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lma	2010-09-14 , 21:58
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Originally Posted by ME2g

When I am using tar to pack files with
tar -cvzf /media/mmc1/backup.tar.gz /

The output of tar just before the error message should be a big hint ;-)

What can I do?

You need to exclude /sys & /proc at the very least. You probably also want to exclude other filesystems like /media/mmc1 and python bind mounts.

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